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Falls City Council approves contract for electric service upgrades

By John Nixon

10/22/2025

(KLZA)-- Falls City Council members approved agreements with three companies Monday night that are designed to help improve the city's electrical services.

The Council approved a letter of agreement with the Olsson company in an amount of $1,507,421 for three phases of the Energy Forward Transmission Improvement Project which is to bring additional electrical power to the community.

Olsson will design a transmission line connecting the city utilty system to an Evergy substation in Kansas and will do surveying work, land acquistion support and line routing in addition to detailed engineering work.

City Administrator Anthony Nussbaum said these would be the early phases of the project.

In addition, the Council approved an agreement with Farris Engineering in an amount of $95-thousand for a GRID Resiliency Project recommended by the Board of Public Works. The City has received grant funds to help pay for the work.

The Council also approved the purchase of SCADA System equipment from SEL Engineering Services for the Power Plant Control Upgrade Project in an amount of $98,605.

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